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Alternative Health News
Herbs: Revitalizing in Spring to Maintain Youthful Vitality
Spring is the time to revitalize and get moving, but also a time to improve our immune systems so that we can avoid wind-caused health conditions that often proliferate during this season.
Hip and Thigh Pain: The Tensor Fascia Latae Connection
Have you ever had a patient with hip and lateral thigh pain that did not respond to your traditional treatment? Would it be helpful to know which muscles to double check that refer pain into the hip and lateral thigh?
WIBB Exclusive: Who Runs the Show?
Staffing issues abound. By far, it is the number one complaint of employers and the reason I am most contacted for consulting. It goes something like this. You have a successful practice and are turning away business.
Expanding Your Massage Therapy Practice
An e-mail survey conducted in December 2011 found that many massage therapists are missing out some potential revenue streams by not offering any additional products or services to their clients.
The Heart /Kidney Connection
Are you treating health conditions related to or affected by love? This past November I taught at the Pacific Symposium, a large educational conference put on for our industry by the Pacific College in San Diego, Calif.
Speaking in Code
At this point, I am certain everyone is aware of the CPT codes for billing acupuncture. However, there have been some recent cases where it is clear that not everyone is following the clear-cut rules on how to define and use these codes.
Re-Framing the Idea of Referring New Clients to Other LMT's
Recently, I called a licensed massage therapist to find out about the possibility of getting a session. If I liked her work, I told her, I'd be interested in working with her as my regular LMT. The first thing she said was that she wasn't doing massage now.
Massage Therapy Reduces Low Back Pain
Non-specific low back pain is one of the most common muscular-skeletal issues reported by patients/clients seeking pain relief. Massage therapy is recognized in clinical practice as an effective treatment.
Using the Channel Systems of Acupuncture to Unravel the Mysteries of Disease Progression
Wind is a philosophical representation of change in the Chinese classics. It is also acknowledged as the root of all physiological disturbance. It is stated in chapter 3 of the Su Wen that wind is "the cause of hundreds of diseases."
Seeing Your Massage Clients Through a New Lens
I've worked with people young and old with complex medical conditions since 1979 when I began my career as an occupational therapist.
Target Your Marketing for Success
When asked what clients they want to work with, many massage therapists answer, "Everybody." When you try to market to everybody, that's called "blanket" marketing.
CAMTC Honors CA State Senator Lou Correa
In closing out a busy 2011, the California Massage Therapy Council (CAMTC) honored California State Senator Lou Correa with its Legislator of the Year award at the final 2011 Board of Directors meeting.
Public Health & Gerontology Groups Support CAM
Two large professional groups recently held annual meetings that featured a number of presentations about acupuncture and CAM topics.
Giving a Big Thumbs Up for Healthy Thumbs
The thumb is one of the most practical and necessary implements of the body. It is the first self-comforting tool to be used, often seen thrust into the mouth of a fetus in the womb.
AAAOM Postpones Annual Membership Conference, Leadership Meeting To Be Held
The decision by AAAOM to postpone its annual membership conference for one year was a difficult one.
Practice What You Preach and Go Back to Massage School
For all of us, the massage school experience is (or was) transformational in nature. As students, we were feeling "new" things, literally and figuratively, every day. Our wonder at and reverence for the human body and all of its systems grew by the hour.
Unlocking the Secret to a Thriving Massage Practice
Whether you own a thriving massage practice, you just want to develop a base of recurring customers, or you're just starting to get clients this article will reveal the little known secret to have more joy from your work, get more clients.
Challenging Sacred Cows, Round Two
I want to clear up something before I go forward. First, an esteemed colleague and visionary of our profession wrote to me asking if I did not believe in science because of my comment, "While I am not a fan of evidence-based medicine..."
A Massage Protocol for Peripheral Neuropathy
My last article in the October 2011 issue focused on diabetic peripheral neuropathy and I want to stress the importance of reviewing that information before proceeding on to this protocol.
The Magic of Microcurrent
In the Merriam-Webster dictionary, I found this definition of the word magic: an extraordinary power or influence seemingly from a supernatural source.
Entrepreneur or Employee? Which is Right for You?
There is no denying the massage and wellness industry is here to stay. People are becoming far more proactive with their health care and are looking to alternatives to heavy medications and a costly doctor visit.
Freeing the Heart, Part 2: Equalizing the Pressure
Cardiovascular disease does not happen overnight. It is a progression that evolves over decades and genetic pre-disposition can accelerate this progression dramatically.
The Big C: What Are You Doing About It?
It is the rare to meet a person these days that doesn't have a concern about cancer. Between the constant headlines, to pink ribbons on everything from planes to phones, to hearing that Aunt Stacy was just diagnosed, it is impossible to not be aware of cancer's presence.
How Chinese Medicine Can Save Western Medicine
Our country is struggling to reduce the cost of healthcare while simultaneously improving its quality and accessibility. I see a partial solution: use Chinese medicine in Western healthcare settings.
Impacting Children: CranioSacral Therapy and Pediatrics
Working with children is an art as well as a science. Using CranioSacral Therapy (CST) on a child can be especially gratifying as a qualified CST practitioner can facilitate significant changes that can positively improve the quality of a child's life.
Positional Release Self Care for Soreness and Other Pains
If your patients are anything like mine, they will report to you that there is commonly a degree of discomfort, soreness or stiffness a day or so following manual treatment no matter how gentle or appropriate that treatment might have been.
Dr. Shi Xue-Min and the Xing Nao Kai Qiao Legacy
To the acupuncture community, Dr. Shi Xue-Min is known as a distinguished acupuncturist and academician of the Chinese Academy of Engineering and a supervisor of doctoral candidates in China.
Dealing with Fibromyalgia
It is estimated that between two to four percent of the population are now suffering from fibromyalgia, including Irritable Bowel Syndrome and TMJ. Perhaps our massage school education did not include how to successfully deal with fibromyalgia.
Get Optimal Energy with Nutritional Self Care
It is our experience that massage therapists are some of the most giving, compassionate people on the planet. While we might be exceptional at caring for others, many massage therapists put themselves last when it comes to their own self-care.
Understanding the Changes of ICD10
Recently, I have been receiving inquiries about the new codes for ICD10. When do they begin and how much of a change will they be?
Professionalism, Education and Turf Wars
Most professions have discourse about the "professional." Professions define themselves in part by excluding others. I would like to briefly explore professionalism in Chinese medicine.
Dynamic Chiropractic – October 8, 2001, Vol. 19, Issue 21
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T.M.G.I.!

(Too Much Great Information!)

By Donald M. Petersen Jr., BS, HCD(hc), FICC(h), Publisher

As you review the article "The Growth of Chiropractic and 'CAM'" in this issue, you will read so much interesting information that you may have to read it twice (or more) to get it all. The article attempts to summarize two studies, and incorporates three tables and five graphs. These studies have produced the most exciting research findings of the year.

Together, the two papers provide a mountain of evidence that chiropractic (and other forms of alternative care) has been growing over the last 50 years and is expected to grow bigger and faster in the future. The paper serves notice to the medical establishment that they are no longer the dictators of health care, but one member on a health care team that includes chiropractic and several other alternative care providers.

The hard part when reading this much great information is remembering to keep it all in perspective. As a team member, chiropractic has to consider how its future action will be interpreted by other health care team members and the consumer. For our profession to grow, we must appeal to more and more patients. That takes a concerted, conscientious educational and informational effort on the part of every doctor of chiropractic to both the public and all other health care providers.

Perhaps it's time we ask ourselves a few tough questions:

  1. Are we clear enough about who we are and what we do, or do the same terms and philosophical differences that hamper our unity also hamper our efforts to communicate with potential patients and other providers?

     

  2. Have some of the profession's actions appeared to be self-serving rather than patient-centered? This is exactly the problem hampering political medicine, and one we need to learn from early.

     

  3. How do we open our hands to individual providers who want to work with their local chiropractors, while still keeping a raised fist in the face of the political entities that would take away our rights and even our existence?

     

  4. What can we do to build alliances with other health care professions? Which professions should we ally with, and how strong an alliance should we build?

     

  5. Does chiropractic work well when combined with all other health care disciplines? Or are there certain competing/conflicting therapies/philosophies that are generally incompatible?

     

  6. Where do we draw the line in determining which "copycats" to fight? Can we do so on the basis of philosophy, education, scope of practice, or some other means?

     

  7. Will our lack of unity continue to slow the growth of chiropractic? Or could it even stymie that growth altogether?

Good news is always good to hear, and these two studies are no exception.

But if they tell us anything, they speak to the potential of the profession. They let us know that we can continue to grow and affect the lives of more people in our respective communities. Chiropractic can reach a far greater percentage of the U.S population, but then again, so can a number of other alternative forms of care.

Chiropractic is entering a new level of respect and maturity as a profession. Many of the old issues are passing away, being replaced by new challenges. And while some of our methods of adavancement have changed, our dedication and determination will have to remain focused.

This doesn't mean that we have to re-invent chiropractic. But it does mean that where we focus and how we move forward must be considered in light of today's health care marketplace.

The chiropractic profession has stood up to and defeated the discriminatory practices of organized medicine. It has opened the minds of the public to consider the advantages of nonmedical health care. And in so doing, the American public is now sampling an entire spectrum of "alternative" care provided by various health care professions and providers.

Care must be taken to insure that our position as the leaders of the health care revolution is not forfeited. As health care moves to the next level, chiropractic must position itself as a reliable member of the health care team while retaining our wellness leadership.

Donald M. Petersen Jr.,BS, HCD (hc), FICC(h)
Editor / Publisher of Dynamic Chiropractic

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